Spanish firefighter’s relief as drain baby survives

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The firefighter who rescued a two-day-old baby from a Spanish drain has described his relief that the boy was alive after more than 30 hours trapped inside a plastic bag.

Residents of an apartment block in Alicante, in the southeast of the country, called emergency services at 2am on Sunday after hearing the wails of what they believed to be a trapped cat coming from a communal drain.

Firefighters realised that it was in fact a crying baby, and an officer went into an enclosed patio area covering the drainage pipes.